Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 7
- July 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages595–596This month we are focusing on the diagnosis of psychotic disorders, with questions about the DSM-III diagnoses of scbizopbrenia, scbizopbren: form and schizo-affective disorders, and affective disorders with psychotic features. Readers are urged to submit ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.595Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages601–606Mental health programs always reflect changes in the political environment. For instance, Under the Carter administration the President's Commission on Mental Health displayed great interest in reforming the community mental health center service system, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.601Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages606–611Mental hospitalization is an important part of the national picture ofbospitalization. Total inpatient days for mental disorders, and their proportion of total hospital days for all disorders, is a statistic of considerable national import, yet there has ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.606Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages611–615The rapid decrease in the resident population ofstate hospitals over the last decade has engendered a debate over the future role of the state hospital in the overall mental health services system. The authors report on a 1979 study of more than 2,000 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.611Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages616–622Despite vigorous efforts at deinstitutionalization, the state mental hospital continues to be the locus of care for a wide variety of patient populations. The authors examined the changes in one state bospilal's clientele between 1 972 and 1 980 and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.616Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages623–628Hemodialysis and kidney transplantation are often accompanied by psychological problems that can affect the medical course oftbe illness. The most frequent problems include depression, noncompliance u'itb diet and medication, and sexual dysfunction. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.623Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages628–631The authors examine the clinical application of DSM-lII from the perspective of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist. They discuss contributions of DSM-III that have refined psychiatric diagnosis in medical-surgical settings, induding the multiaxial ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.628Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages631–633Clinician-researchers involved in developing DSM-JII found that the decision tree for the differential diagnosis of psychotic features that appears in the manual does not accurately or clearly represent the logic of the classification. They present a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.631Publication date: 01 July 1983
Pages634–638The authors examined the records of 3,824 patients making their first visit to a psychiatric emergency room ofa teaching hospital. Data on the patients who made repeat visits (1 7. 7 percent) were analyzed to determine vanables that may correlate with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.7.634Publication date: 01 July 1983
Page664The Ideas column features brief notes about interesting or unusual programs, novel approaches to therapy, and useful resources in the mental health field. Contributions to ideas are welcomed. items, not exceeding 200 words, should be sent to the Editor, ...
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